Pete Doherty Quotes

I grew up with British rock.

Rock music is niche.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.

'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.

I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.

I love almost every Britpop band.

There was a time when I had spiky hair and I was doing Indian-influenced R&B fusion songs.

Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.

Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made a spectacular comeback.